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title: Deuteronomy 31:3 (JPS 1917) — The LORD thy God, He will go over before thee; He will destroy these… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD thy God, He will go over before thee; He will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them; and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. Who acts: LORD, thou. Deuteronomy 31:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Deuteronomy 31:3 · JPS 1917

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The LORD thy God, He will go over before thee; He will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them; and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** go over, destroy, dispossess, speak · **To what, where:** thee, nations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 31:3 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LORD, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:DEU:857
# text = The LORD thy God, He will go over before thee; He will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them; and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	dislocated	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	dispossess	dispossess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	dislocated	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
34	over	over	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go over** | future | LORD |  |  | thee |  | the LORD *dislocated*; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before thou=Location |
| 2 | **destroy** | future | LORD | this nations |  | thee |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
| 3 | **dispossess** | shall | thou | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 4 | **go over** | shall | LORD |  |  | thee |  | Joshua *dislocated*; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before thou=Location |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ ה֣וּא ׀ עֹבֵ֣ר לְפָנֶ֗יךָ הֽוּא־יַשְׁמִ֞יד אֶת־הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָאֵ֛לֶּה מִלְּפָנֶ֖יךָ וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֑ם יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ ה֚וּא עֹבֵ֣ר לְפָנֶ֔יךָ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 31:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.31.3/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:857` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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